Chapter 40： Review the gains

The whole process of making Horcruxes is very demanding. As the number of soul splits increases, the degree of evil required and the difficulty increase linearly.

It is the limit that most black wizards can split their souls once. No wizard can split one's own into more than two parts and create more than one Horcrux. That kind of pain is enough to make the caster crash himself, and splitting the soul will make the main soul very unstable.

Like Voldemort, who split his soul many times and successfully made multiple Horcruxes, in Schelling's view, it is simply impossible to do it.

After the soul is separated, the next step is to select the appropriate Horcrux and inject the soul into it. Any item can be made into a Horcrux, but with the transfer of the soul, an extremely powerful spell is needed to protect the Horcrux and sufficient magic power to support the completion of the entire transfer process.

This means that even if a dark wizard is evil enough to split his soul, but without strong enough support, he cannot successfully make a Horcrux.

The book specifically emphasizes that the dark wizard must properly protect his Horcrux. The damage of the Horcrux will definitely affect the main soul, making the already extremely unstable main soul even more fragmented. The most direct consequence is to make the black wizard lose his mind and become crazy gradually. And his power will not be affected, on the contrary, because the soul has become evil enough, it will be more handy in the use of black magic.

Xie Lin chuckles in his heart, this is not good news.

So far, he has destroyed three Horcruxes made by Voldemort, namely Tom’s diary, Ravenclaw’s crown and Slytherin’s locket. Destroying Voldemort's Horcrux seemed to make him one step closer to death, but in fact doing so did not effectively weaken the power of Voldemort's body, but would make him even more dangerous.

Behind the Horcrux, "The Secret of Cutting-edge Black Magic" also introduces a lot of evil black magic. For example, the evil curse behind the Horcrux, "The Kiss of the Dementor", is based on the study of the kiss of the Dementor, directly targeting the soul of a person, pulling the soul out of the body, and making him irreversible. .

In the future, there will be a detailed introduction to the production and control of the corpse, the three unforgivable spells, etc.

Schelling is temporarily not interested in refining corpses and unforgivable curses. This is because he, like all minor wizards, has traces planted on his body by the Ministry of Magic.

Zongsi is not set on the magic wand as the fan fiction of the bad street in the previous life said. Think about it, if the problem can be solved by changing a magic wand, the "Seven Harrys" in the "Seven Harry Wars" Crazy Eye Moody I already took Harry Apparition and left, why bother so much, and finally lost a life and an ear?

As far as Schelling knows, there is a mysterious alchemy item in the Ministry of Magic’s Office of Prohibition of Abuse of Magic, which was passed down from Merlin’s time. The original intention of the inventor at that time was to use this item to discover magically awakened children in Great Britain. , I hope to start rescue as soon as possible to avoid tragedy.

To this day, the role of this alchemy item has been replaced by Hogwarts' "Pen of Acceptance" and "Book of Access". It was used by the Ministry of Magic for another purpose-to monitor the casting of minor wizards.

The reason given by the Ministry of Magic is to monitor whether minor wizards cast spells in front of Muggles, violating international secrecy laws. But in fact, all the magic within the range of the little wizard can be detected. In other words, if Schelling casts the Heartbreaking Curse in the company of Lucius, it would be cheating. The first thing the Ministry of Magic suspected was Lucius broke the law.

Of course, some places such as Malfoy Manor have been released with a lot of shielding magic, even with the power of the silk, it cannot be detected. But if it can only be used in Malfoy Manor, then what is the use of learning these magics?

What Schelling lacks most now is time, so I skip these magic options that are not needed in the short term.

Another dark magic in the book that really made Schelling interested is Taboo.

In the original work, Voldemort cast a forbidden word spell on his name, and successfully used this to hunt down many members of the Order of the Phoenix. This magic can put a tracking mark on any word, and the person who speaks the word will be immediately tracked to the location. Obviously, this is a very useful tracking spell.

The original intent of this forbidden word spell was to create an atmosphere of depression and panic, so it was also classified as black magic. But it is obviously not as eye-catching as the corpse or the unforgivable curse. After all, this curse can only be tracked and cannot directly hurt, and it will not be so easily noticed by the Office of Forbidden Abuse of Magic.

(Note: People's Agency did not translate for Taboo, and only wrote "a taboo on the name", but Taboo uses a capital T in the original English text, indicating that it is a magic name, and the author privately translated it as a forbidden spell)

Schelling put down "The Secret of Cutting-edge Black Magic" and picked up another "Forbidden Transformation".

This is a book involving the taboo field of Transfiguration. The first page introduces many terrible and irreversible transformation magics. For example, the ancient Greek witch Circe liked to turn sailors who lost their way on the sea and accidentally entered the island of Eea into pigs; such as the McLivo family on Delia Island. Turn all hostile families into bloodthirsty crazy five-legged beasts...

(Note: Circe is a Greek mythological character, appeared in the chocolate frog painting)

(Note: Quintaped is a five-star dangerous magical animal. It likes to eat human flesh and cannot speak. The official description is that it is covered with thick reddish brown hair and has five deformed feet. In fact, it is simply a long The head with five hands has a spider-like movement, but is more flexible than spiders. After all, the feet are like hands and have strong magic resistance)

Scrolling down further, Schelling saw a familiar magic—Transmogrifian Torture. He had seen records of people killed by this spell in the research notes that Lockhart left him. .

This is a very insidious magic. If it weren't for the existence of the anti-curse, it would definitely be more terrifying than the Heart-boring Curse and the Killing Curse. It can produce pain and pain through the deformation of the human body, such as needles piercing the tips of the fingers, needles piercing the eyeballs, piercing the second child with a pin and so on.

The most terrifying thing is not the pain, but the moment before the pain occurs, such as the moment when the sharp-pointed needle is aimed at the pupil, such as the taste of lightly rubbing the second child with a barbed clip... Not many people have the psychological tolerability. Can afford this pressure.

Unlike the Heart Drilling Curse, this black magic does not require evil thoughts to perform its full power, because it is a transfiguration, not a spell. There are only two requirements for the transformation torture spell. The first is to have a very high level of transformation, and the second is to have a very strong and precise control over the spirit.

Schelling fully meets these two conditions. This magic is almost tailor-made for him.

Turning back there are the "aging curse" that turns people into old women and grandpas, the "four-legged beasting curse" that must land on all fours like beasts, and turns people into ugly like living zombies. The terrible "corpse-turning curse" and so on are all kinds of evil polymorphisms.

Apart from being used to disgusting people, these transfigurations are not very practical, except for a few cruel and abnormal wizards.

What really interests Schelling is actually "Stone Transfiguration", which is a magic that can turn people into stone statues. After being turned into a stone statue, the subject will not die or grow old, and even keep it. One's own consciousness can still perceive the surrounding situation, but can't make any actions or actions.

This is different from the petrification effect of the Basilisk's indirect confrontation. The petrification effect of the Basilisk is to make the whole body rigid, paralyzed, lose the ability to move, and lose consciousness at the same time. Apart from being unable to move, the subject has not changed in appearance, as if suffering from muscular sclerosis.

The stone transformation technique actually turns the subject into a stone statue from the outside to the inside. If it is not carefully checked by a smart wizard, most people will only treat it as a statue.

What is interesting is that whether it is the petrification effect of the basilisk or the stone transformation technique, the way to crack it is to use the mandela grass resurrection potion.

["Taboo Transformation" obtained! 】

In addition to these two books, Schelling had another big surprise in the Black Magic Book of the Black Family-it was actually "Abatel Volume III"!

The family spells of the Black family focus on soul spells. From this, it can be inferred that "Abatel Volume III" must correspond to the realm of soul magic. The ancestors of the Black family obtained this fragment by chance, and they were able to create the core inheritance of the family. It is no exaggeration to say that this fragment is the foundation of the Black family.

In Schelling’s view, soul magic and spiritual magic have many overlaps. If used properly, they can form complementary gains, achieving the effect of one plus one greater than two.

As mentioned earlier, there are two factors that affect the growth rate of magic power: mental power and soul strength.

Schelling’s mental power has long been capped, and he looked through the book with expectation, hoping to find inspiration in it to increase the strength of his soul.

["Abatel Volume III" won! 】

Schelling doesn't know the number of times anymore, and sighs for his extraordinary luck.

He is much luckier than Ravenclaw. Ravenclaw had to take a glimpse of Abatel throughout his life, and had to die with regret.

Xie Lin has just turned 14 (just passed his birthday three weeks ago), and has collected three volumes: Spirit, Soul, and Curse. His future is still very long. Maybe he can really complete LaVine. Crowe’s last wish was to collect eight of the entire book.

In a blink of an eye, it came to June 30, and the little wizards boarded the Hogwarts Express.

On the train, in Schelling’s box, in addition to the usual trio, there was another Astoria.

"Brother Xie Lin, I got the first place in this semester! Are there any rewards? Hee hee!" Since Astoria kissed Xie Lin in the last Dingo incident, Astoria seemed to let go of the girl. Shy and reserved, she showed a mischievous expression at this moment, acting cutely towards Xie Lin.

An imperceptible light flashed in Xie Lin's eyes, but a gentle smile appeared on his mouth: "Of course, my Tori has a reward. Don't worry, this summer vacation will give you an unexpected surprise!"

Then, he asked casually, as if carelessly: "How did the other people in your session behave?"

"Hmm..." Astoria tilted her head and thought for a while, then replied: "The students in other colleges in this year are also very strong. Apart from me, Slytherin is the only one who spends his time. The grades were pretty good. My sister Hestia Kahlo got fifth place, and my sister Flora Kahlo got sixth."

Carlo family? Xie Lin's eyes flashed with unintelligible thoughts.

Then, Xie Lin Zou frowned, "Slytherin's performance is nothing more than that? Shouldn't it!"

Since he established his influence in Slytherin, the style of the snakes has changed a lot-unity and mutual assistance, value knowledge, respect for teachers, and Astoria has received Schelling’s academic counseling in private. Schelling has confessed that the former can appropriately share Schelling's study notes with his classmates , while building a strong friendship, it can also enhance Slytherin's overall strength.

"Then-who is the second to fourth place?"

"Second place is Melinda Bobin from Ravenclaw. She is quite proficient in potions and herbal medicine. I feel that it has already far exceeded the level of the first grade, and even the second grade students may not be better than her; third; Demirza Robbins named Gryffindor, her spells, transformations and flying are very good, Professor McGonagall said she is very imaginative! The fourth place is Hufflepuff Joanna Derwent, she's like other Hufflepuffs, she's mediocre on weekdays, but she didn't expect to make a sudden blockbuster in the exam and shine."

Xie Lin suddenly discovered an interesting phenomenon. The top six are all young girls! How could this be? Where is the little wizard?

"There will be the Quidditch World Cup this summer!" Daphne said, "Didn't you promise my dad to come to my house? Shall we go to the World Cup together? Dad can definitely get tickets."

"Yeah, yeah, brother Xie Lin, let's go together!" Astoria said coquettishly.

Schelling turned to look at Meredith, who shrugged, "Since Mom and Dad passed away, only me and the house elves are left in the house. I have promised Uncle Gareth and let the Shafik family become The vassal family of Greengrass, this may still continue the glory of the family. I will spend this summer at Greengrass Manor. If you can come, we can go to the World Cup together."

Schelling intends to use the time before the summer vacation to do his own things. He calculated the time, "Okay, then let's do it! About a few days before the start of the World Cup, I will meet you again and go to the game together!"